Things to do in Africa: start with Ghana

Africa is fifty-four destinations, not one, and the best way into any of them is a local who calls it home. GuideX is building the home of host-led travel experiences across the continent, starting where we live: Ghana.

Ghana earns the starting slot on merit. It's West Africa's most accessible introduction (anglophone, famously welcoming, dense with history), and it packs coastline castles, a living royal kingdom, rainforest canopy walks and savannah elephants into a single, doable loop.

Ghana, region by region

Greater Accra

Things to do in Accra

Accra is West Africa's most exciting capital right now. Jamestown fishing-harbour history, Makola market chaos, world-class nightlife and a booming food scene all sit within one traffic-snarled, music-filled sprawl.

Central Region

Things to do in Cape Coast & Elmina

Cape Coast is the emotional centre of any Ghana trip: the UNESCO-listed slave castles of Cape Coast and Elmina hold the history of the Atlantic slave trade with devastating directness, while Kakum National Park's canopy walkway swings you through rainforest treetops an hour away.

Ashanti Region

Things to do in Kumasi

Kumasi is the seat of the Ashanti kingdom: a living royal capital where the Asantehene still holds court, kente is woven in villages that invented it, and West Africa's largest market sprawls across the city centre.

Savannah, Northern, Upper East & Upper West

Things to do in Northern Ghana

Northern Ghana is the stretch most itineraries leave out, and the loss is theirs: walking safaris among elephants at Mole National Park, the ancient mud-and-timber mosque at Larabanga, sacred crocodiles at Paga, and a savannah culture (Dagomba, Gonja, Mamprusi) entirely distinct from the south.

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